Abjection

moral ailments. A comparison to this story would be Bruce Almighty, in which the main character, Bruce, plays the role of God consequently for his own ailments. Both authors also use their ability of storytelling to show readers a representation of abjection and jouissance. Both the grandmother and Bruce play a god, whether literally or theoretically, in their actions. The grandmother is seen to be judging the various people within her life. As she encounters everyone, she judges them to be good based

The following essay examines the characteristics of the aestheticisation of abjection by analysing Jonathan Demme’s, The Silence of The Lambs (1991) to better understand what pleasure we, as a culture, find in consuming horror films. The Silence of the Lambs shows women being tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered yet is still a widely popular film that serves to entertain a seemingly sane society. By exploring the theory of the “abject”, horror and the role of gender instability within film

Having discussed Victorian ideas of sex and gender, this paper will now focus on the monstrous feminine in Dracula. The term monstrous-feminine itself derives from Barbara Creed's "Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection." In her text, Creed claims that every human culture has its version of the monstrous-feminine, "of what it is about woman that is shocking, terrifying, horrific, abject" ("Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine" 44). Creed applies this concept onto horror movies such

Socialization plays a huge role in zombie narratives and has evolved tremendously within films. It refers to the lasting process of inheriting and circulating norms, customs and principles, providing an individual with the skills and habits required for partaking within his or her own society. In Night of the Living Dead Romero’s monsters are mainly othered creatures, having virtually no subjective, human abilities and promising almost no emotional suture with the viewers. Although, it is noticeable

12 Years a Slave positions utter beauty between and within scenes of violence and abjection to inspire poignant reflection; frequent tranquil landscapes emphasize gruesome acts and remind us of man’s capability for despicable amorality. Though we often like to sequester slavery to a time and a place no longer existent, it was not 19th century Louisiana that committed these heinous acts but rather the privileged white men who occupied the territory. Louisiana landscapes are and always will be beautiful;

Toni Morrison, presents the reader with some of the strong racial imbalances present in the African American communities in the United States. The novel, The Bluest Eye, addresses many themes such as, feminism, rape culture, repetition in rupture, abjection, oppression, racism and the innocence of youth (Morrison 1970). The evident issue in the novel is the way that the African American people oppress not only themselves but others, to the standards of the white American standards of things such as

Kitchen, and Outside Over There The three titles of Maurice Sendak’s famous picture book trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There, name what Judith Butler calls “zones of uninhabitability,” places of abjection that form the borders of the self as both its constitutive outside and its intimate interior. These are dangerous places in the geography of childhood, places where the child’s very life and sense of self is threatened. More frightening still, they

Some of the literary concepts in this story are abjection and existentialism. Existentialism is the process of defining one’s self through living which is making choices and following them through; it is this act of choosing that gives meaning to one’s life. Abjection is the event where we lose something important to ourselves that we would still like to keep when we are forced to face a traumatic experience. Without this loss, or abjection, it is impossible to experience jouissance. Jouissance

In Dead Europe the abjection and disgust escalate as the story unfolds and not all readers are able to continue to read the book in its entirety. It opens with Issac setting very clear boundaries during his encounter with the sex worker and the story ends with another encounter with a sex worker only this time it appears all boundaries have disappeared as Issac murders and consumes the body. Both Picnic at Hanging Rock and Lantana have more of a simmering undertone of abjection rather than an escalation

Fatherless, a ten lettered word that has had the capability to transform me into the person I am today. The word which reminds me of the cold bars that separated my father and me. Growing up I learned through my mother's strength to be dedicated to making a change in my life. To work hard for what is right no matter what obstacles I had to fight through. Although I treasure my mother's efforts, I wish my father would have been there to guide me through life's lessons; I wish he would be here today